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That’s why you make a list of exemptions for celebrities.

Do you mean like “quit thinking”? I recall someone once asking Lou what a pitch he hit was and he said he didn’t know. He just sees the ball and tries to hit it. I have no idea if that approach can work today.

Welcome to the site. They won’t be patient. He showed some promise in the playoffs and his performance at the end of the season wasn’t terrible. But that’s not good enough. He has to get better. He’s in the plans for now because that’s the only option but they won’t let him get in their way if they see an opportunity. His status as a 1:1 will not interfere at all with a decision.

I know the house.

As someone who “manages” a lot of “systems”…. 😂

All I can say is if I can do it then I bet most anyone can. I was an athlete in HS. Played baseball and soccer and was decent. But I hated running. As an adult I gained a few pounds a year and in my mid 30s found myself about 40 pounds overweight and out of shape. My wife was a runner so I took it up a little bit. Did a few 5Ks. Then I set a goal to do one under 28 minutes. In 2019 I set a goal to run one race a month and did my first half marathon. Just takes training and building up. When I did a couch to 5K program in 2013 I thought I would have a heart attack after a quarter mile. Each step you think you can’t do it but you do.

Yes. It resumed in 2023. That was the first time I did it. It’s very cool running across the bridge around sunrise.

I just got back from Cobo to pick up my race stuff for Sundays half marathon. Trump is speaking there this evening and already his peeps were down there hanging around the expo. They were easy to spot. Dressed like clowns. MAGA hats aside, the jeans with the flag down one leg, crazy buttons. One thing you never do is judge a runner by their looks or size. They come in all varieties. But Trumps folks still stood out. Think leathery faces with “meth mouth”.

Lucas Raymond too.

You can get a sense from their walk up music.... white dudes have country type songs, the fake bro country. KErry Carpenter has a Christian Praise song. The "Mexicans" get latin pop music. The absolute best walk up song ever was Carlos Guillen's use of T.I.'s "U don't know me". It fit him to a tee. Swagger. Loved that guy.

Cry more.... I hate complaints about running up the score.

Al gore had a funny speech in 2000.... said something about hearing from a woman who's husband is about to lose his job and she has to get one now to support them family.. then he says "Hillary Clinton, I will fight for you as President". Later on Dubya did his thing but at the end said of Gore "While I can't wish you success I wish you nothing but the best" or something along those lines. DIfferent times.

Just now I referred to a former co worker, named Kerry and a last name with a lot of letters, as Kerry Carpenter. He'd retired and I was asking one of his bosses if they ever found a replcement for one of this person's duties.

I always saw Vierling's value as his versatility. You don't neglect to fill a regular spot b/c you have Vierling but you have Vierling around to fill those holes that always pop up, either through injury, slumps, or days off. 4 days a week you'll need to fill one of those.

Damn....

according to the twitter.... that's the first postseason game featuring a game tying, and go ahead HR by both teams with 2 outs in the 8th inning or later. Kind of convoluted but makes the point it's been a good game.

I want both teams to lose so it’s all good. In fact of all 4 teams left I really don’t want any of them to win.

Here's my conspiracy theories, I'm not one to believe them normally, but I'll throw these out there by saying if something weird is going on with the campaign, this is what they are likely to be, IMO: 1) Create the impression something is wrong, beyond what we have seen, attempt some kind of replacement on the ticket option "Look he's not well ok, you guys got to replace your candidate, let us replace ours", these votes shouldn't count, and when that obviously fails because a process isn't being followed by the GOP like it was the DEMs, they will use that to cry foul and that the election isn't fair and blah blah blah which will lead with chaos (their hope) 2) He knows he's losing and this is more about his trials and making him look unfit to be charged because it would be cruel.

Wow, that dude is still alive? Even before my conversion I turned that guy off as he was too religious for my liking. But... what he said there is something. You can't discount that and I think it's an area where pollsters could miss. If what he says is true then it has to be true in a lot of places. Like mtu says.... it's the margins.

Maybe those finance people aren't as smart as they want us to believe?

They feature exterior shots of the Temple Bar, which sadly had some structural damage occur this year and has yet to reopen. I see pallets of materials out front but they've been there for awhile so who knows... sure hope they reopen. Classic dive bar and a favorite of ours before or after Tiger games. No nonsense.

Yep. It would have been great to see a focus group of men/women to see their initial reactions.

google has become almost unusable

They were halfway there already....

I was there last July. The game was rained out but I did get some photos.